Anna was busy talking with the unicorn, who said her name was Twilight Sparkle and she insisted that she and everyone else happen to be 'ponies,' ABSOLUTELY NOT HORSES. Period. She learned this the hard way. If you wanna know what the 'hard way' was, it meant Anna was turned into precisely twelve animals in one seating: tiger, wolf, frog, owl, butterfly, mouse, rabbit, dove, catfish, parakeet, reticulated python, and lastly and not to mention most humiliating in her opinion, a squirrel. A. Fucking. SQUIRREL.

Anyhow, they were in the town of Ponyville approaching the library. Right when something huge and metallic crashed into the town square, which sent everyone out of their houses and running to this metallic object. It was huge and like two rectangles merged together, with the smaller one with a gun mounted on top of the larger one with chain-wheels, as wrong as that sounded. It had spikes lining the sides of the smaller one, with holes on the larger fitted with machine guns. On its sides were drills that were big and bad enough to aid in a mining excavation!

And laying on his side resting on the metallic behemoth was a man in a black Nazi suit, a red sash with a black reverse swastika in a white circle on his right arm. He had short, scarlet-brown hair and white gloves on his hands. In his left hand was a black sword-gun that could fire six bullets per volley if so desired.

He slowly turned and sat up properly for once before Anna kissed him on the cheek.

"A-Anna!" The man shouted, a really bright blush on his face. His red-brown eyes shrunk in utter surprise.

"I'm so glad you're okay, Lance!" Said nature girl as she proceeded to give the Nazi a bear-hug.

"Get off of me! Y-You're too young to be kissing grown men on the cheek!" Lance complained as he tried and failed to shove the green-haired youth off of him. Her response was to hoist him even further off the ground whilst hugging him.

And breaking his back doing so.

The Mighty Oak picked up the Valkyrie and gently set it next to the library...tree-house...thing.

"Anna, I think you're killing him." Twilight said with a smile.

"When's the wedding?" Rainbow jested.

"Help!" Lance fruitlessly pleaded as his hands were on Anna's face as he kept trying to push her off. His legs kicked and flailed wildly as the archer suddenly swung her body to and fro and causing him to sway with.

A crowd of colorful ponies proceeded to laugh.

At Lance.

Out loud.

And make jokes doing so.

All revolving around the wedding.

And the kissing in the tree.

One pony who was pink all over with blue eyes suddenly hopped around the mock couple and kept on saying she'd throw them all sorts of parties. She was, in Lance's opinion, the most annoying one in the whole lot of the mocking crowd.

"I think I'm doomed...." Lance complained. He then took a really deep breath, and from his lips sounded... "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Matt and Natalie were busy eating their dinner in the privacy of the room the Crystal Palace Rulers gave them. They were talking about what to do tomorrow in the candlelight.

Then they heard....

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Lance?" They said in confusion.

"Is Anna death-hugging him again?" Matt asked.

"I don't know. But it sounds like it." Natalie replied.

NoLegs meowed.

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"You're scaring me, Anna! Lay off already!" Lance said as he was standing between nature girl and a bookcase. Rainbow Dash was behind him, wings spread wide and she was in the pouncing position.

"Lance, it's just a party! Chill already!" Anna pleaded with those damn puppy-dog eyes.

"No!" Lance repeated.

"We're making you go anyway." Rainbow sneered. The 'I like you' smile crossed her lips.

Lance looked more frightened than a kitten in a thunderstorm with no place to hide. The fact Anna was even pestering him to begin with added enough horror already.

A rainbow pegasus who liked him judging from the look on her face joining forces with nature girl?

Nope.

Just no.

Scratch that, oh hell to the NO!

"Fine! Just quit looking like you're going to rape me!" Lance said in defeat as he scrambled up a ladder and knocked a baby dragon over.

"What was that for, ya jerk?!" Called the dragon named Spike.

"Bist du wirklich so vergessen, was gerade jetzt passiert?!" Lance cried with a face-palm.

"Rainbow Dash, lay off of him. Anna, Lance, you both need a nap." Twilight said with a nod. "Spike, just calm down."

"Okay." Both humans replied.

"Whatever." Spike hissed under his breath.

Rainbow merely nodded.

Lance hopped off the ladder with a sigh. Twilight led the humans upstairs, turning her glance from the library to them simply to ensure they didn't try anything. Whatever the Tartarus they were, it was a safe bet they were hostile--especially given Lance's behavior and Anna fending off an angry manticore by herself no less.

The two humans sat in chairs and put down their weapons. The unicorn sat on a pillow as she eyed them.

"Alright you two. Tell me how you got here." Twilight sighed in annoyed wonder.

"Well," Anna started, "We heard rumors about this...rampaging deity, I guess you could call it. If you're a person who saved the world before, why not take the chance to do it again?" The archer paused briefly, turning her gaze to Lance. "We set up camp for the night in this dark cave because, according to the rumor, the deity waited there. Wound up being ambushed and separated from our two other friends, Matt and Natalie."

"Tell me more about Matt and Natalie, I am intrigued." Twilight smiled.